Woman and young boy hit by car while walking in condo parking lot

Published 4:30 pm Friday, December 19, 2014

An elderly woman was seriously injured after she was hit and trapped under a car while walking with her two grandchildren through a parking lot at the condominium complex on Harborview Drive Southeast Friday afternoon.

The woman was airlifted to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle just before 4 p.m. with life-threatening injuries.

The woman’s 3-year-old grandson was also hurt in the accident. Bainbridge Island Assistant Fire Chief Luke Carpenter said the child’s injuries were not life-threatening, but he was taken to a Kitsap hospital by a medic unit called in from North Kitsap Fire & Rescue.

The boy’s older sister was not hurt in the accident, but was visibly shaken up by the incident, Carpenter said.

After the woman was hit and wedged under the sedan, workers from a nearby construction project rushed to the scene and began putting heavy wooden beams under the vehicle to raise it high enough to free the woman.

She was still trapped when Bainbridge firefighters got to the scene, Carpenter said.

She was not conscious, he said.

“The construction workers did a great job of getting started. We got there and took over,” Carpenter said.

Using levers and wedges, emergency crews raised the vehicle and pulled the woman out. She was placed in a medic unit and taken to fire station on Madison Avenue, and an Airlift Northwest helicopter transported her to Seattle.

Carpenter said the car was not traveling very fast when it struck the pedestrians.

The driver, described as an elderly man, was not injured.